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Driving Drunk

Driving drunk or with any amount of alcohol in your body reduces your reaction time while driving.  Along with other risk factors contributed by the driver or vehicle, your reaction time significantly decreases your responses to factors involving the environment and people.



 If you are:  and your vehicle/boat has:   how effectively can you deal with:
  • Drunk
  • Drinking alcohol
  • Talking on the cell phone
  • Smoking
  • Drop your lit cigarette
  • Reading
  • Speeding
  • Talking to the people in the car
  • Playing around with people in car
  • Not wearing your seatbelt
  • Text messaging
  • Eating
  • Driving with your pet on your lap
  • etc…
  • Dirty windshield
  • Flat tire
  • No headlights
  • No turn signals
  • Capsized
  • No side mirror
  • Too many people
  • Inoperative windshield wipers
  • etc…
  • A child running into the street
  • Car backing out
  • Jogger
  • No highway lighting
  • Rain
  • Ice on the roads
  • School bus stopped for children
  • Traffic slow down
  • Slammed on breaks
  • School zone
  • No painted lane lines
  • Staying afloat
  • Fog
  • Pedestrians crossing the road
  • Approaching emergency vehicles
  • Road debris
  • Animals crossing the road
  • Inoperative stoplights
  • Snow
 
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